Definition of "abominate" []

• To detest thoroughly; abhor. (verb-transitive)

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• ""I hate the French cookery, and abominate garlick," Tobias Smollett told his readers 245 years ago, with a snooty disregard for foreigners that runs through too much travel writing today."
• "It had occurred in the course of learning the nature of white men and of learning to abominate them."
• "I detest and loathe and despise and abore and abominate her"